September 24, 1998 - Nikolas Cruz

The Parkland shooting of February 2018 stands among the deadliest school attacks in American history, and the record Cruz left behind — on social media and in his documented behavioral history — made clear that the warning signs had accumulated over years. The scale of the event, seventeen dead and seventeen more wounded, helped drive a renewed national debate over school safety, gun access, and the gaps in systems meant to identify and intervene with at-risk individuals.

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Nikolas Jacob Cruz (born September 24, 1998) is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States. On February 14, 2018, Cruz killed fourteen students and three staff members, while injuring seventeen others, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In November 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Cruz had been known for his behavioral problems since preschool, and as a teenager on social media, he shared his obsessions with mass shootings and expressed racist, sexist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and homophobic views. He was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He legally purchased various firearms before the shooting.

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